My answer to that was in the meaning of the word "apocryphal" - in common English usage these days, yeah, it's often used to mean "not true", but if you go back to older/literal meanings (which someone with Dresden's reading history probably has) it means a) hidden teachings or b) the stuff the authority figures reject but that some people think is true anyway.
So I think I just automatically parsed that as Harry saying "the White Council et. al. claim Loki never existed but we all know better than to naively trust that, don't we?"
Alternatively, a) Harry being naive and wrong, or b) Butcher screwing with his readers, which is usually both at once.
The story he's referencing there is pretty widely retold with Loki losing all the contests (or Thor losing all the contests), and not just in recent stuff, isn't it? Who knows what source Harry's working from, but at this point it's probably more than we've got. (Or just Bob.)
...I had kind of assumed Gard was there so that Odin could make sure and get Marcone when he inevitably fell, and his men becoming Einherjar was just a sweetener on the deal. Your version is darker and therefore more interesting, though.
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Date: 2012-02-20 12:15 am (UTC)So I think I just automatically parsed that as Harry saying "the White Council et. al. claim Loki never existed but we all know better than to naively trust that, don't we?"
Alternatively, a) Harry being naive and wrong, or b) Butcher screwing with his readers, which is usually both at once.
The story he's referencing there is pretty widely retold with Loki losing all the contests (or Thor losing all the contests), and not just in recent stuff, isn't it? Who knows what source Harry's working from, but at this point it's probably more than we've got. (Or just Bob.)
...I had kind of assumed Gard was there so that Odin could make sure and get Marcone when he inevitably fell, and his men becoming Einherjar was just a sweetener on the deal. Your version is darker and therefore more interesting, though.